SYSTEM OPTIONS: SUPERSAFE TANK COMPONENTS
SuperSafe Containment Platform.
This platform works well in high foot-traffic areas and for additional protection against accidental fuel loss
during routine maintenance activities. This structure is 8'6" wide, 6'0" deep and has a 3" high
containment dam. The rounded, all steel, seal-welded containment edge has 118 gallon capacity, twice the volumetric
capacity of the liquid bearing components contained. The floor is designed so that rain water can be run off through
1" lockable ball valve. Typically, the delivery transport connections are located over this containment structure,
along with the necessary valveing, inlet strainer, positive displacement pump, and the fuel filtration system.
The tank sumping is also accomplished here as well. The platform includes all of the standards and features of
the larger half- and full pump house designs. From this spill pan, all of the fuel piping enters the tank truly
secondarily contained.
SuperSafe Closed Circuit Sump
Sampler. Proper sumping of aboveground fuel storage tanks is one of the daily challenges faced by the aviation
fuel storage quality assurance people. On top of their list of problems is assuring they have clean, dry fuel each
time, every time it is through putted. The most frequent aboveground tank operator induced sumping problem occurs
when:
- Insufficient allotment of time scheduled to perform testing.
- Motivation lacking due to in meteorological conditions, or other factors.
- Cost of fuel lost due to testing.
- Poor training and evaluation of testing procedures.
- Insufficient quantities of sump samples are gathered.
- Sump samples taken at insufficient pipe velocities.
The development of the SuperSafe
Closed Circuit Sump Sampler was to address all of these reoccurring situations. SuperSafe Tanks are now equipped
with a sumping system that allows the operator 
to easily view fuel sump samples,
separate the bad sample for disposal and sending the separated good fuel back to the inventory.
Fuel tank sump samples are captured
in the positive sump with a suction pipe that routes captured samples above the liquid level, through an anti-siphon
device, visual sight glass, valveing, and a one micron vessel. At this point the fuel can be examined in the typical
white bucket, and a decision made. Return the good fuel back to inventory and or dispose just the bucket bottoms
if necessary. The retrieved fuel is routed downstream back through the sump one micron filter vessel, inlet strainer,
suction pump and eventually back through the main filter separator and back to storage. Any small amounts of contamination
escaping this procedure will be captured in the sumping one micron filter, or the downstream main filter separator.
The end result is easy and user friendly sumping procedure that will assure frequent sumping with out the hassles
of the past.
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